Example sentences of "one could " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be a cult in the making — and one could imagine a film by Antonioni , whose script-writer , Mark Peploe , was intrigued by J. Behrens in his last days . |
| 2 | They are pieces of writing which are distinct in law ; the author of the one could not be sued for the other , or for collaborating in it . |
| 3 | One could try to approach it with the notion of spheres of competence . |
| 4 | It has been argued that one could help to break that circle by integrating the school system ( Fraser 1974 ; Heskin 1980 ) . |
| 5 | But , he pointed out , no one could possibly conceive what life would be like after the death of images . |
| 6 | One could easily get lost in there forever , Moira F. said . |
| 7 | Rooms jangle after rows and no one could argue like me and Martin ! |
| 8 | Very neatly and no one could say when , but something had died that night . |
| 9 | One could never have guessed from his enquiries that the matter was somewhat uncongenial to him . |
| 10 | He was a man , a friend , a fellow-rebel , a poet , with whom one could simply be oneself ; and write knowing that it was understood , respected . |
| 11 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 12 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 13 | For me it was like an Aladdin 's Cave , and one could not help but notice the often ridiculously low prices being asked . |
| 14 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 15 | No one could fail to understand the Onlooker 's reaction to the tale just unfolded . |
| 16 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |
| 17 | One could argue that digital technology is n't the only way to solve a particular circuit problem ; a nifty bit of design work with a couple of op-amps plus a few Rs and Cs can replace a complex digital filter system . |
| 18 | I have sometimes whiled away idle moments in speculating how far one could elaborate this figure before the reader became suspicious . |
| 19 | Easthope acknowledges that the pentameter line had qualities which made it more resourceful than the older accentual metre , since one could achieve a great range of poetic effects by counterpointing intonation against metre , which is what nearly all the major English poets have done , though supposedly imprisoned in this bourgeois strait-jacket . |
| 20 | One could do the same thing with ‘ unicorn ’ , which has sense but no verifiable reference . |
| 21 | He further argues that Derrida 's fundamental claim that speech is really writing , and that writing is prior to speech , is based on a redefinition of terms , and that by such methods one could prove anything , that the rich are really poor , that the true is really false , and so on . |
| 22 | No one could doubt that the application of the academic mind to literature has been salutary in bringing rigour and discipline into criticism : cleaner texts , scholarly annotations , precise analysis , intelligent — even transforming — interpretations and readings ; and an intolerance for woolly emotional responses , vague inflated recommendations , and subjective wallowings of all kinds . |
| 23 | It is true that Arnold Bennett , for one , refused to conform to that stereotype ; and doubtless one could find other exceptions . |
| 24 | ( For Bottome herself says : ‘ No one could write better than Ezra when he was not trying to score off T.S . |
| 25 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 26 | The plot , insofar as one could discern it , was both labyrinthine and self-cancellingly ambiguous , built round an interview in a psychiatric hospital between a journalist and the grief-obsessed widow of a German professor who had bequeathed a videotape casting doubt on the official version of Hess 's death . |
| 27 | No doubt one could easily design a more Francophone list , but with nine Germans and three Austrians , the German-language contribution was close in number to the 13 English-language and outnumbered the eight French . |
| 28 | But whatever their collective response to coming second , no one could complain of losing to a Bath side so replete with experienced English caps and burgeoning talent . |
| 29 | This one could not . |
| 30 | Nor is there any need to risk being challenged by alternative social visions , to attend to the views of ‘ every crackpot messiah round the world ’ , since ‘ it matters very little what strange thoughts occur to people in Albania or Burkina Faso , for we are interested in what one could in some sense call the common ideological heritage of mankind ’ . |